Actually, what I find interesting is how many derivatives you find in languages when you know ancient ones.
At my school, three years of a foreign language is required, and they start everyone with Latin. Then you start seeing words made from Latin everywhere.
As a sidenote, I\'d rather learn Greek, but I guess Latin will have to do
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Also, to the uninitiated, a derivative is a word in a language that has roots in another language.
For example, the English
advertise is a derivative of the two latin words,
ad--to, towards, at, near (yes, I know it\'s weird), and
verto--to turn
So therefore, to advertise is to turn someone towards something. Cool, eh?
